BILL NUMBER: SCR 15	CHAPTERED  08/24/99

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   85
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   AUGUST 24, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 16, 1999
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   MARCH 8, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Ortiz

                        FEBRUARY 16, 1999

   Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 15--Relative to state employee
merit awards.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 15, Ortiz.  State employee merit awards.
   This measure would request that additional merit award payments,
authorized by the Department of Personnel Administration, be made to
specified individuals whose proposals have resulted in annual savings
and net revenue gain to the state.




   WHEREAS, An award of $5,000 has already been made to Margaret J.
Griffin, California Department of Aging, for a proposal resulting in
increased savings of $282,000, recommending amending a waiver for
Special Services, a multipurpose senior services program provided to
frail seniors.  The Case Management Administration and Waived
Services were matched with equal amounts of General Fund money and
reimbursed 50 percent from the federal government.  Special Services
were not eligible.  Redefining and using a 50-50 match formula for
Special Services provides an equal amount of federal money, resulting
in a net increase to the program; and
   WHEREAS, An award of $5,000 has already been made to Scott R.
Sweet, Department of Corrections, for a proposal resulting in annual
savings of $212,000, recommending developing a simulation model to
run on a personal computer that that replaces the department's
existing mainframe simulation program.  This program provides updates
and parole population projections, eliminates running projections on
the mainframe at Teale Data Center, and improves error detection;
and
   WHEREAS, An award of $5,000 has already been made to Robert E.
Salon, Employment Development Department, for a proposal resulting in
annual savings of $943,085, recommending revising a Quarterly
Contribution Return Form DE 3, by adding a penalty and interest (P&I)
computation section for voluntary payments.  Nearly all employers
are required to file quarterly returns each quarter.  In 1995,
because of legislation (AB 3086), reporting requirements were revised
for California employers, eliminating the DE 3 form with a replaced,
Quarterly Wage Report Form DE 6 and Deposit Coupon Form DE 88.  As
an alternative solution, revisions suggested by Mr. Salon were made
on a Deposit Coupon Form DE 88 for employees to use whenever they
were making any payments along with the required deposits of
disability insurance and personal income tax; and
   WHEREAS, An award of $5,000 has already been made to David A.
McCoy, Employment Development Department, for a proposal resulting in
annual savings of $56,584, recommending purchasing a CD ROM for
processing automated searches and displaying address information at
authorization centers, field offices, and outstations.  This phone
disc software would lower staff hours processing the File Payment
Time Lap and Unemployment Insurance Claims, and would eliminate using
directories to manually look up employer addresses or sending the
claims back to the claimant when the address information was omitted;
and
   WHEREAS, An award of $5,000 has already been made to Larry V.
Herrback, California State Lottery, for a proposal resulting in a 10
percent versus 5 percent annual savings of $116,519, recommending
developing a new base for the Lottery Playcenters to accommodate
handicapped playcenters.  This new base has a writing surface of 18
inches to 24 inches from the ground and enables a wheelchair-bound
individual to fill out a playslip; and
   WHEREAS, An award of $5,000 has already been made to Jack L.
Smith, Department of Transportation, for a proposal resulting in a
savings of $76,874, recommending replacing a Status Display Map of
Los Angeles with a computer-generated graphic display system.  This
new software prepares different maps and graphs and eliminates all
existing equipment, 1,800 lights and circuit boards, and the need for
three engineers to operate the system; and
   WHEREAS, These employees' proposals have resulted in actual
savings of $1,587,062; and
   WHEREAS, As a result of these savings and increased revenue, it is
unnecessary to appropriate additional funds for payment of awards to
these employees; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby declares that the
following additional awards, authorized by the Department of
Personnel Administration, are hereby made as follows to the employees
named:


Margaret J. Griffin            $ 9,100
Larry V. Herrback              $   826
David A. McCoy                 $   658
Robert E. Salon                $42,154
Jack L. Smith                  $ 2,687
Scott R. Sweet                 $16,200; and be it further

   RESOLVED, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Controller and the Department of Personnel
Administration.
